In a new Mysterious Universe article, Nick Redfern offers the latest variation on an old story he’s been telling over and over again since his 2010 book Final Events. In fact, he’s told versions of this same story on Mysterious Universe itself in 2012 and again in 2014, and he is currently recycling it for his recently published book Secret History and a forthcoming book on “Women in Black.” Each time the story is the same: According to an Episcopal priest and former MUFON director named Ray Boeche, the U.S. government has concluded that space aliens are actually demons from hell, and that the UFO agenda is to bring about the End Times by seducing humanity into believing in space aliens instead of Satan’s minions. In 2012, for example, Redern (re-)quoted Boeche as having once said:

As a pastor and someone who’s trained as a theologian, I can’t come to any other conclusion than there is some sort of spiritual deception going on here. In so many of these kinds of alien contacts, the entities involved make a denial of Christianity. Anytime the spiritual issues are addressed, there is always some sort of denial of the validity of Christianity and the validity of the Bible.

Aliens are apparently a hybrid of Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher, but they seem less interested in debunking Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, etc.

If this were all Boeche had to say, he’s be no different than the literally hundreds of clergy who have made statements over the decades to the effect that UFOs are Satanic and space aliens are really demons or fallen angels. Boeche, though, goes beyond the standard Nephilim conspiracy to argue that (a) the U.S. government is involved in investigating Satan’s dominion over the earth, and (b) he (Boeche) was recruited to work with the federal government to stop Satan. Boeche says that in 1991 a secretive group he calls the Collins Elite approached him to battle demons after Satan began attacking members of the group for probing too far:

I found it interesting because they had contacted me at work; and I have no idea how they tracked me down there. But, they wanted to know if we could get together and have lunch to discuss something important. I met them for a brief period of time on that first meeting, and then they said: “We’d like to get together and have a longer conversation.” I arranged a time and it was quite a lengthy discussion, probably three and a half hours. And that’s how it all came about.After both meetings, when I was able to verify that the men held the degrees they claimed to hold, and were apparently who they claimed to be, I was intrigued and excited at the possibility of having stumbled on a more or less untouched area which could be researched. But I was also cautious in terms of “why me?”

Boeche would seem to be either a liar or fantasy-prone were we to judge him only on the lack of evidence to support his version of events. He made a series of extremely unlikely claims about his work with the Department of Defense. He claimed that not only has the DoD determined that space aliens are actually Satanic demons but that they are posing as beneficent beings in order to pass on tainted information and/or technology to destroy Christians’ souls. Boeche claims that DoD officials told him that one of their researchers had opened a portal to hell as part of an experiment to contact non-human intelligences. “I was never able to get an exact point of origin of these sorts of experiments, or of their involvement, and when they got started. But I did get the impression that because of what they knew and the information that they presented, they had been involved for at least several years, even if the project had gone on for much longer.” What you may not know is that Boeche, the founder of a Fortean group, has been investigating UFO conspiracies for decades. In the 1980s, for example, he tried to enlist the aid of a U.S. senator to investigate the Rendlesham UFO event. In the 1970s, he investigated alleged sightings of the Men in Black, and in 2014 he told Redfern in True Stories of the Real Men in Black (which seems to be recycling material from Final Events, as Redfern himself indicates) that the Men in Black are also a demonic deception designed to lead humans away from Jesus. Worse, he also said that as a child he had befriended paranormal author Gray Barker—the first to report on (or invent) Men in Black and Mothman—and remained in close contact with him until his death in 1984. Even though Barker was himself a UFO skeptic who wrote, to be blunt, lies and hoaxes for cash, the young Boeche seems to have taken Barker at face value and incorporated his imaginary world of monsters as part of his own Christian fantasia. If Barker actively encouraged Boeche’s conspiratorial worldview, if only by omission, that is another stain on his record. (Also: Isn’t it interesting how all of the people involved in fringe claims are closely connected?) Not included in Redfern’s recent articles is Boeche’s claim given in Final Events that in 1988 the U.S. government’s Collins Elite alleged in an unspecified document that the only way to combat Satan’s flying saucers was “intense indoctrination of faith and values at planetary level to radically and rapidly alter current population mindset.” That indoctrination, in turn, is supposed to involve “Old Testament” strictness of belief. What a remarkable conclusion that just happens to further the priest’s own Christian agenda! Damn hippies, ruining everything and letting Satan in! Oh, and these demons—they aren’t just regular old demons. No, they draw clearly from the Nephilim tradition. The Nephilim were, in apocryphal literature, cannibals, so their ghosts—the demons—are now energy vampires who feed off of human souls and have masqueraded as pagan gods, fairies, and Djinn. It’s probably clear to most readers that Boeche’s 2010 claims seem very closely aligned to the political and cultural concerns of the preceding years, particularly Bush-era evangelical Christian fundamentalism, which prior to 2009 was found or suspected to operate at many levels of government and remained a controversial if unofficial component of the military even after. The “Old Testament” strictness the Collins Elite allegedly demanded can only be a coded reflection of evangelical fundamentalist belief. I should probably note that Redfern seems a bit confused about the Collins Elite. He claims not to know the group’s real name, and he refers to it sometimes as a unit of the Department of Defense, sometimes as part of the CIA, and other times as an independent think tank. The story, which is supported by no documentary evidence, is that the CIA funded the creation of a think tank for current and former defense officials in 1952, a few days before the infamous Washington, D.C. UFO flap of July 20 and 27, 1952. Thereafter the group “feuded” with various other agencies in a tug-of-war between UFO disclosure and harnessing the power of Satan. Oh, indeed, there must have been a government conspiracy at work to hide the true activities of Satan. It’s all spelled out in declassified CIA documents just like the ones of which Redfern is so fond. (In Final Events, for example, Redfern takes a 1969 government review of popular UFO literature for a statement about the nature of UFOs.) In 1949, a certain Ross C. Patton wrote to the Director of Central Intelligence to inform him that he was certain that science was a satanic hoax. He claimed that gravity was an illusion and that the “whole scientific profession” had somehow missed the signs, as well as the real reason it gets dark at night around a stationary earth. Patton concluded that the only reason we can no longer see God when we look up into the sky is that “Satan has blinded our eyes.” The Director of Central Intelligence, R. H. Hillenkoetter, replied that he read the letter with… “a great deal of interest.” It’s a conspiracy!Sadly, there is much more documentation of U.S. government involvement with Satan’s gravity deception than there is of the alleged demon-UFO summoning think tank.

I often wonder how much of this bilge Redfern believes. The fact that "The Collins Elite" don't seem to know what theology is, or that they'd recruit a random priest in Nebraska, would give most honest researchers pause.

And then there's the fact that the book the Collins Elite were supposedly most obsessed with was The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia. Redfern even links to it, and I read it last night. It's pretty interesting stuff, but it has zero, zip, nada to do with demons as real entities. Basically, the long introduction summarizes the then current (c. 1906) scholarship on Babylonian and Assyrian superstitions, followed by transliterations and translations of cuneiform tablets that deal with those superstitions. I don't see how anyone could read it and get anything much more out of it other than that headaches and sleep paralysis have been universal concerns for human beings for as long as there have been human beings. Either Redfen didn't bother to read the book, or he thinks a sooper-secret CIA/military think tank really cared if ancient Assyrians used fleabane to keep evil spirits from entering their houses. Neither possibility speaks very well to the credibility of the Collins Elite.

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Nick Redfern

6/7/2015 01:29:31 pm

Hamilton: You say: "I often wonder how much of this bilge Redfern believes."
I have constantly and consistently pointed out that I do not believe that UFOs have demonic origins in the sense that the people who approached Boeche believed. I point out early in the book that this is not my story or my belief. I wrote the book not to endorse or uphold the theory, but because I found it fascinating that such a group existed and was funded etc. I have made those specific points from the very beginning, when the book was published in 2010, that this is the story of how and why the group existed, why Boeche was contacted etc. It's not a case of me saying or supporting the theories and beliefs in the book.

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Scott Hamilton

6/8/2015 04:27:37 am

Yes, the "bilge" I was referring to was the fact that Mr. Redfern thinks the Collins Elite exists at all. Apparently he does. (Like Only Me, I'd love to see any proof of that. Mr. Redfern has never offered any in any of his books on the subject I've read.)

Yes, individual people in government can come to have strange beliefs. But the beliefs attributed to the Collins Elite and the alleged actions of the group are nonsensical and internally inconsistent. They sound exactly the kind of "think tank" that a random, fantasy prone priest with an interest in UFOs and too much time on his hands to watch paranormal TV shows (probably because he lives in Nebraska) would come up with. Which I'm pretty sure is exactly what happened. I can't prove it because I can't read minds, but that's where the independently verifiable evidence points.

Nick Redfern

6/8/2015 06:26:22 am

Hamilton: Ray Boeche was not the only person contacted by the CE. He was the only one who chose to go public and have his account published. I recommend you contact certain researchers (very well known) who have written on the alleged deceptive nature of the UFO phenomenon. You might be surprised by what you find, in terms of certain approaches made to them. You are 100 percent right, in that I have ZERO proof that the group exists. But the verbal testimony from multiple sources convinces me it does. If this was a hoax from Ray Boeche (which I do NOT think it was at all) or anyone else, why would the creator of the story not state that the group had proved their case about the demonic angle? Surely if someone wanted to create such a story to get a viewpoint/theory across, they would be very forthright that the theory was correct. All of the CE people who were interviewed admitted that their views (on the demonic angle and the "demons are eating our souls" theory) were 100 percent belief driven. That - to me - sounds believable and plausible: a think-tank that looked into something and came to a belief-driven conclusion. I would ave been very suspicious if someone said they had proof of all this - no-one in the CE ever did say that because by their own admission they had nothing beyond belief.

Nick Redfern

6/7/2015 03:02:23 pm

So what's your point? A few years back, a British Ministry of Defense report (that has come to be known as the "Condign Report") was declassified. The author (whose name is withheld from the declassified papers) concluded that genuinely anomalous UFOs are actually plasmas that can provoke bizarre UFO-like visions/hallucinations, and play a role in abduction/contact cases etc. As the Condign Report shows, even in Government/military etc people believe weird shit when it comes to UFOs. So the Collins Elite came to some seriously weird scenarios, such as the human soul being a form of energy that demons "eat." We are their herd, in other words. Do I believe that? No. Not at all. And just about every radio show on the book I ever did makes that very clear. People in government can become believers in highly controversial UFO-related issues as easy people in Ufology. None of that makes the CE correct in their beliefs. It makes them people who influenced enough people to give them a degree of funding to look into it and reach conclusions. To the best of my knowledge, that is all they did: form beliefs and theories and share them with like-minded people. Yes, I do think the Collins Elite cared about what was written in ancient books. But, again, just because they cared and studied doesn't mean they were on the right tracks.

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Only Me

6/7/2015 07:10:56 pm

Here's something I'd like to know. Does the Collins Elite actually exist? A simple search showed nothing but fringe themed websites on the first page alone. If their existence is limited to the testimony of Ray Boeche, then that's a huge red flag for me.

Duke of URL

6/5/2015 05:20:49 am

Redfern & Boeche seem to be off their meds - I recommend Thorazine.

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Nick Redfern

6/7/2015 01:31:18 pm

And I recommend you shut the fuck up

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Juan ton Soop

8/20/2015 07:25:39 pm

And i recommend you go put some flowers on yo dead grandmother's grave bitch!

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Alaric

6/5/2015 05:24:24 am

Quickly, before reading beyond the title;

"Is the U.S. Government Summoning Satan through UFOs?"

Um... I'm going to guess "no".

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Bingo Bradbury

12/7/2015 07:55:21 pm

If you go to www.metatech.org you will SEE proof that Obama is indwelt by demons. Obama also has a design on his scalp-of grey aliens!

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David Bradbury

6/5/2015 06:20:16 am

Very very very tangentially linked giggle-

I just glanced at the early evening (UK) TV schedule and noticed the following at 8pm:
"Holy Grail Conspiracy: Secrets of the Knights Templar
Episode 3 of 4
Last in the series"

The Nephilim have suppressed an entire vital episode, curse them!

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Clete

6/5/2015 06:57:36 am

I don't know why it is, but every time I see Nick Redfern on the tube, he reminds me of Danny Warbucks from the musical "Anne".

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Nick Redfern

6/7/2015 03:08:28 pm

I had to Google this to see what it was all about. Turns out it's actually called "Annie." Which brings me to my reply: who the fuck watches musicals???? And why????

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Clete

6/9/2015 04:11:31 am

Didn't watch it either, but, unlike you, I am aware of what is happening in the world and don't spend my days scratching my balls and looking stupid.

Nick Redfern

6/9/2015 05:20:08 am

Oh, I know exactly what's going on in the world. You have balls? Really? If that's the case, say what you think to my face.

I think I found the real evidence that Ancient Aliens visited us: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/06/04

I am surprised these drawings haven't shown up in a fringe report yet.

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Bob Jase

6/5/2015 12:02:45 pm

Now if I was a Satanic demon who wanted to convince humanity that I was really a space alien I'd make an obvious army of alien spacecraft appear in all the world's major cities & forcefeed coverage of it to all the electronic media.

But I guess being seen by one credulous yokel at a time and occassionally mutilating a cow is much more effective.

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Platy

6/5/2015 05:14:11 pm

Jason: Off topic, but a question I've been meaning to ask you is have you ever read Mark Booth's Secret History of the World? Another one is have you ever heard of Nicholas De Vere?

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Mark L

6/6/2015 08:13:44 pm

I've read Booth's book. I don't think my personal views on it are terribly useful, so I'll give the consensus of the 5-star reviews on Amazon about it - that it's essentially fiction, a fantasy about what the author wants history to be like.

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Ray Boeche

6/10/2015 11:40:09 am

I'm somewhat concerned at the confused state of Jason Colavito's piece. I was not, nor have I ever claimed to have been "recruited" by the government to fight demons. I have simply reported -- in a very public way -- beginning on May 31, 1993 -- the account of the DOD researchers I spoke with. The first real public mention of this was posted on ParaNet International by my friend Bob Dunn on that date.

I have always maintained I had no way in which to establish the truthfulness of these men's claims, but found their account worthy of further scrutiny. Thus I passed it along to the research community.

Nick Redfern became intrigued by it, and was able to follow it further, and uncover more information.

If Jason Colavito would try to restrain himself from assigning conclusions to both myself and Nick Redfern which are completely unsupported, and drawn from statements either misunderstood or taken out of context, he would do everyone a much greater service.

If you'd like to see what my actual thoughts are, and the evidence on which they've been based, you can read two of my primary papers via Scribd.com, or academia.edu

Nick Redfern's excellent work speaks for itself.

As does the confused, confabulated concoction Colavito has created above.

What a gaggle of jealous little mean girls in the comments. The article is competent but biased, but the comment section is like an HS lunch table full of smug little cunts. I read FE, and Redfern covered the story perfectly competently, objectively and honestly. There's not one valid criticism in the ignorant lot, starting with "I wonder how much of this Redfern believes?"' which demonstrates directly he didn't even read the material he's "criticizing"....

I don't know what else to say. Pathetic.

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trev

6/2/2017 05:45:41 pm

I've considered these questions myself recently, after seeing UFOs in 2011 & 2013 Im left trying to make sense of it all, who or what are these Beings, where do they come from, why are they here, are they good or evil, are they demonic? I don't know what to think. I just know that what I saw could not have been of this World. are they from another planet or another Dimension?

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